"Peace for All".
Date Submitted: 09/20/2004 09:33:42
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 4 pages (1087 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 4 pages (1087 words)
"Peace for All"
Mahatma Gandhi first started his movement of non-violence in India during the late 1800's - early 1900's. He became active in the struggle to end the humiliations and indignities that people were facing in South Africa when he traveled to there to represent an Indian trader in Natal in a civil suit against an Indian trading firm. Within days of being in South Africa he was pushed out of a train and …
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…drive to empower his own people. Yet racism, sexism, and inequality remain but so do the lessons of Gandhi and Dr. King.
Conflict leads to conflict. As Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." With this faith, as Dr. King said, "we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."
Equality and peace go hand-in-hand. Without one, we will never have the other.
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